Long-eared bat
Maker
(artist)
1769-1859
1769-1859
Title
Long-eared bat
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour with some gum arabic on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 26 cm
Width: 26 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3378
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Spink & Son (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 54
p. 54
Inscriptions
Inscription: JWD. RA
Inscription: 387-
Inscription: a Bat suspended
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
Inscription: 387-
Inscription: a Bat suspended
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
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